Third Programme, Drama, 1951

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01/01/1951 Harold Nicolson Miss Plimsoll (A sketch from ' Some People ' arranged for broadcasting and produced by Douglas Cleverdon) rpt 21/12/1951

01/01/1951 Thomas Love Peacock Crotchet Castle rpt 25/09/1951 and 26/09/1951

02/01/1951 Louis MacNeice The Golden Ass or “Metamorphoses “ of Apuleius rpt 31/12/1951

03/01/1951 Henrik Ibsen The Lady from the Sea

04/01/1951 Jean Anouilh The Untamed (Le Sauvage) (Translated by Kitty Black Music composed and arranged by John Hotchkis) rpt 30/12/1951

05/01/1951 Christopher Hassal Christ’s Comet rpt 06/01/1951 and 27/01/1951

07/01/1951 Antony Brown Paradise Street rpt 12/01/1951

11/01/1951 Anon The Assembly of Ladies (Modernised, adapted for broadcasting, and produced by Terence Tiller)

13/01/1951 Gabriel Marcel The End of Things (La Fin des Temps) rpt 18/05/1951

14/01/1951 William Shakespeare Henry VIII rpt 17/01/1951 rpt 09/02/1951

19/01/1951 Gil Vicente Auto de La Sibila Casandra (A Christmas mystery play first played in 1513 in the presence of Queen Lianer of Portugal Performed in Spanish and produced by Emilio Blazquez-Davila , of the Latin-American Service of the BBC)

20/01/1951 August Strindberg Luck Peter’s Travels (In a new translation by Peter Watts with music specially composed by John Hotchkis and played by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra)

21/01/1951 Herbert Read The Inward Eye – Moon’s Farm rpt 23/01/1951 and 16/02/1951 and 30/07/1951

24/01/1951 Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House rpt 28/01/1951

26/01/1951 August Strindberg Married Alive/Comrades (A new English version by Max Faber of August Strindberg's ' Comrades ') rpt 30/01/1951 and 17/02/1951

02/02/1951 Antony Brown Paradise Street

04/02/1951 John Dryden Sir Martin Mar-all (After Molière's ' L'Etourdi ') rpt 06/02/1951 and 02/03/1951

11/02/1951 Gabriel Marcel A Man of God ('Un Homme de Dieu ') (English version by Marjorie Gabain) (Adaptation and production by E. J. King Bull) rpt 13/02/1951 and 10/03/1951 and 16/10/1951

14/02/1951 Richard Rumbold and M. F. A. Stewart Portrait of an Airman (Antoine de St. Exupéry) rpt 15/02/1951 and 09/03/1951

18/02/1951 Albert Maltz The Cross and the Arrow rpt 21/02/1951 and 17/03/1951

20/02/1951 Rayner Heppenstall The Battle for St David’s

04/03/1951 Julien Gracq The Fisher King ((' Le Roi Pecheur') (English version by Rollo H. Myers and E. J. King Bull with incidental music composed by Elisabeth Lubyena and conducted by Edward Clark) rpt 06/03/1951

11/03/1951 Hermann Sudermann Midsummer Fire (Translated by Ashley Dukes and revised and adapted for broadcasting by A. L . Lloyd (Production by Raymond Raikes) (Music specially composed by Leon Young played by the BBC Variety Orchestra) rpt 14/03/1951 and 03/04/1951

12/03/1951 Henry Reed A By-Election in the Nineties rpt 16/03/1951 and 07/04/1951 and 11/06/1951

18/03/1951 Paul Claudel Partage de Midi (Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Robert Speaight from a version by Jonathan Griffin) rpt 13/10/1951

19/03/1951 W. B. Yeats The Herne’s Egg rpt 21/03/1951

23/03/1951 The Passion and The Harrowing of Hell (Two medieval Cornish plays freely translated into English verse and adapted for broadcasting by Terence Tiller

24/03/1951 William Cooper Prince Genji

25/03/1951 The Resurrection (Translated into English verse from the medieval Cornish, adapted for broadcasting and produced by Terence Tiller)

25/03/1951 Ivan Turgenev A Month in the Country (Translated by Constance Garnett and adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe) rpt 28/03/1951 and 20/04/1951

27/03/1951 Terence Tiller The Juniper Tree (With music composed and directed by John Hotchkis and Olive Gregg)

01/04/1951 Euripides The Bacchae (Translated by D. W. Lucas with music by Anthony Bernard)

06/04/1951 Gabriel Marcel Ariadne (An English version by Rosalind Heywood of the play Le Chemin de Crete) (Adaptation by E. J. King Bull)

08/04/1951 George Bernard Shaw Heartbreak House rpt 10/04/1951 and 02/09/1951

09/04/1951 W. B. Yeats A Woman’s Beauty - The Only Jealousy of Emer (One of ' Four Plays for Dancers ')

14/04/1951 Henry Reed Return to Naples

15/04/1951 Terence Tiller The Burning Deck rpt 18/04/1951

17/04/1951 Francois Mauriac Asmodée (Adapted for radio by Peter Watts from the English version of Basil Bartlett and Produced by Peter Watts) rpt 21/04/1951 and 11/05/1951

19/04/1951 Max Beerbohm Enoch Soames

22/04/1951 John Maddison Morton Box and Cox rpt 27/04/1951

24/04/1951 E. L. Blanchard Taking the Census

25/04/1951 Douglas Jerrold Retired from Business rpt 26/04/1951

25/04/1951 Bulwer Lytton The Lady of Lyons or Love and Pride rpt 26/04/1951

29/04/1951 Herman Melville Moby Dick (Specially adapted for broadcasting by Henry Reed with incidental music by Antony Hopkins and produced by Stephen Potter) rpt 01/05/1951

02/05/1951 R. H. Ward The Westward Journey rpt 05/05/1951 and 11/09/1951

03/05/1951 Honor Tracy Foreign Correspondent

04/05/1951 James Forsyth Adelaise rpt 10/05/1951 and 24/08/1951

06/05/1951 André Gide Oedipus (Translated from the French by John Russell and Production by Donald McWhinnie) rpt 12/05/1951 25/05/1951

13/05/1951 Henrik Ibsen An Enemy of the People (Adapted for broadcasting by Norman Ginsbury from his English version and Production by Mary Hope Allen)

16/05/1951 Louis MacNeice The Dark Tower

19/05/1951 Ernst Schnabel On the Eve of a New Day (Translated from the German by David Porter)

20/05/1951 John Milton and Henry Lawes Comus rpt 23/05/1951 and 21/09/1951

22/05/1951 Jean Cocteau The Knights of the Round Table (Adapted for radio from the English translation of W. H. Auden) rpt 24/05/1951 and 03/07/1951

03/06/1951 Thomas Hardy The Dynasts – Part 1 (Arranged for broadcasting in six parts by Henry Reed) rpt 24/06/1951

04/06/1951 The Stage Irishman (Scenes from plays written between 1587 and 1924 arranged for broadcasting with a commentary by J. O. Bartley and Michael Wharton)

05/06/1951 Thomas Hardy The Dynasts – Part 2 (Arranged for broadcasting in six parts by Henry Reed) rpt 25/06/1951

06/06/1951 Thomas Hardy The Dynasts – Part 3 (Arranged for broadcasting in six parts by Henry Reed) rpt 26/06/1951

07/06/1951 Thomas Hardy The Dynasts – Part 4 (Arranged for broadcasting in six parts by Henry Reed) rpt 27/06/1951

08/06/1951 Thomas Hardy The Dynasts – Part 5 (Arranged for broadcasting in six parts by Henry Reed) rpt 28/06/1951

09/06/1951 Thomas Hardy The Dynasts – Part 6 (Arranged for broadcasting in six parts by Henry Reed) rpt 29/06/1951

10/06/1951 Rayner Heppenstall The Rising in the North (A ballad chronicle) rpt 14/06/1951 and 05/07/1951

11/06/1951 Robert Henryson The Testament of Cresseid (A narrative poem)

11/06/1951 Max Beerbohm A Sequelula to the Dynasts rpt 01/07/1951

16/06/1951 Federico Garcia Lorca Yerma (Translated by Roy Campbel)

17/06/1951 Henrik Ibsen When We Dead Awake

18/06/1951 Wyndham Lewis The Childermass rpt 19/06/1951 rpt 10/07/1951

20/06/1951 William Shakespeare Measure for Measure rpt 23/06/1951

21/06/1951 James Joyce The Second Best Bed rpt 22/06/1951 and 17/07/1951

30/06/1951 Edgar Allan Poe – Two Colloquies 1-' The Power of Words ' and 2—'The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion' (Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Rayner Heppenstall)

01/07/1951 T. S. Eliot The Cocktail Party rpt 06/07/1951 and 24/07/1951

08/07/1951 George Bernard Shaw John Bull’s Other Island rpt 12/07/1951 and 07/09/1951

11/07/1951 Laurie Lee The Voyage of Magellan rpt 13/07/1951

14/07/1951 Philippe Auguste Mathias Axel (Abridged and newly translated with a commentary by James Lover and produced by Rayner Heppenstall)

15/07/1951 William Shakespeare Hamlet rpt 18/07/1951

20/07/1951 Michael Innes The Hawk and the Handsaw rpt 21/07/1951

22/07/1951 Virgil The Aeneid (A selection from the new translation of Virgil's poem made for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis) rpt 03/08/1951

26/07/1951 William Congreve The Judgment of Paris (Music by John Eccles)

27/07/1951 A. W. Dodd Before Auction rpt 28/07/1951 and 14/08/1951

29/07/1951 Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis (English translation and radio production by Raymond Raikes with Music composed by Anthony Bernard) rpt 31/07/1951

01/08/1951 Voltaire Candide Part 1 (Translated into a radio version and produced by Douglas Cleverdon))

02/08/1951 Voltaire Candide Part 2 (Translated into a radio version and produced by Douglas Cleverdon)

04/08/1951 Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris (Translated by Philip Vellacott and music composed by Anthony Bernard in a radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes)

05/08/1951 John Lehmann The Inward Eye - The House

06/08/1951 Geoffrey Chaucer The Prologue to the Cantebury Tales rpt 11/08/1951

08/08/1951 Goethe Faust Part 2 Programme 1

09/08/1951 Goethe Faust Part 2 Programme 2

10/08/1951 Goethe Faust Part 2 Programme 3

11/08/1951 Goethe Faust Part 2 Programme 4

12/08/1951 Robert Browning Mr Sludge, The Medium (A dramatic monologue) rpt 17/08/1951

13/08/1951 Plato The Dialogues - The Apology' and Crito (A new translation by Hugh Tredennick and arranged for broadcasting and produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 16/08/1951

19/08/1951 James Forsyth Heloise

21/08/1951 Plato The Dialogues - Phaedo (A new translation by Hugh Tredennick and arranged for broadcasting and produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 22/08/1951

23/08/1951 James Forsyth The Other Heart

26/08/1951 Gabriel Marcel Oblation (English version by Rosalind Heywood in an adaptation and production by E. J. King Bull) rpt 28/08/1951 and 14/10/1951

27/08/1951 Plato The Dialogues - The Symposium (The translation by Shane Leslie and Francis Birrell arranged for broadcasting and produced by Rayner Heppenstall) rpt 29/08/1951

04/09/1951 Plato The Dialogues - ?Protagoras’ and ?Phaedrus’ (Translated by Francis Kimohim Smith and Kenneth Fawdrey respectively, and arranged by them for broadcasting in collaboration with the producer, Rayner Hapenstall) rpt 05/09/1951

09/09/1951 Christopher Sykes Spes Israelis rpt 12/09/1951 rpt 27/10/1951

13/09/1951 Edward Sackville-West The Rescue (Music composed by Benjamin Britten. BBC Opera Orchestra (Leader John Sharpe), conducted by Clarence Rabould) rpt 14/09/1951

16/09/1951 Cyril Tourneur The Revenger’s Tragedy rpt 19/09/1951

17/09/1951 Virgil The Aeneid Book 1 (A new translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis) rpt 20/09/1951

18/09/1951 Michael Swan Henry James in Italy

22/09/1951 Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus

23/09/1951 Pirandello Lazarus rpt 27/09/1951 and 20/11/1951

24/09/1951 Virgil The Aeneid Book 2 (A new translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis) rpt 28/09/1951

29/09/1951 Stephen Potter and Joyce Grenfell How To Broadcast including How Not To rpt 04/10/1951 and 18/10/1951

30/09/1951 William Shakespeare Cymbeline rpt 02/10/1951 and 23/12/1951

01/10/1951 Virgil The Aeneid Book 3 (A new translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis)

05/10/1951 George Bernard Shaw Cymbeline Refinished rpt 18/10/1951

07/10/1951 Hilaire Belloc The Four Men (A dramatic arrangement by Lord Duncannon of Hilaire Belloc 's Sussex farrago adapted for broadcasting and produced by Norman Wright) rpt 11/10/1951 and 03/11/1951

08/10/1951 Virgil The Aeneid Book 4 (A new translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis) rpt 10/10/1951

15/10/1951 Virgil The Aeneid Book 5 (A new translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis)

21/10/1951 Sir John Vanbrugh The Confederacy rpt 23/10/1951 and 04/12/1951

22/10/1951 Virgil The Aeneid Book 6 (A new translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis) rpt 26/10/1951

24/10/1951 R. N. Currey Between Two Worlds rpt 25/10/1951 and 14/11/1951

28/10/1951 Gabriel Marcel Rome is Elswhere (English version by Rosalind Heywood and E. J King . Bull and production by E. J. King Bull) rpt 02/11/1951 and 09/12/1951

29/10/1951 Virgil The Aeneid Book 7 (A new translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis) rpt 01/11/1951

04/11/1951 William Shakespeare The Tempest rpt 07/11/1951 and 28/12/1951

05/11/1951 Virgil The Aeneid Book 8 (A new translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis) rpt 08/11/1951

06/11/1951 C. P. Snow The Young and Ancient Men rpt 10/11/1951 and 01/12/1951

11/11/1951 George Bernard Shaw Widowers’ Houses rpt 16/11/1951

13/11/1951 Virgil The Aeneid Book 9 (A new translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis) rpt 17/11/1951

18/11/1951 Luigi Pirandello The Life That I Gave Him rpt 22/11/1951

19/11/1951 Virgil The Aeneid Book 10 (A new translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis) rpt 23/11/1951

21/11/1951 Honor Tracy Retreat from Moscow or ‘Major Cudlipp's Other Island' rpt 24/11/1951 and 15/12/1951

25/11/1951 William Shakespeare The Winter’s Tale rpt 27/11/1951 and 26/12/1951

26/11/1951 Virgil The Aeneid Book 11 (A new translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis) rpt 29/11/1951

02/12/1951 Albert Camus The Just (Translated by Lucienne Hill from ' Les Justes ') rpt 07/12/1951

03/12/1951 The Aeneid Book 12 (A new translation for broadcasting by C. Day Lewis) rpt 06/12/1951

05/12/1951 Jacquetta Hawkes Two Sides of the Mirror rpt 08/12/1951 and 29/12/1951

10/12/1951 George Bernard Shaw Mrs Warren’s Profession rpt 14/12/1951

12/12/1951 J. Bronowski The Face of Violence

13/12/1951 Theophile Gautier Une Larme du Diable ('The Devil's Tear' adapted as a radio play and produced by Jean Forest)

18/12/1951 Federico Garcia Lorca The House of Bernarda Alba (Translated and adapted for broadcasting by A. L. Lloyd) rpt 22/12/1951

24/12/1951 Anne Ridler The Golden Bird rpt 25/12/1951

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Compiled by Alistair Wyper - many thanks.



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